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A two-day International Workshop, titled “Making India a Global Healthcare Destination. Historical and Anthropological Enquiries on Cross-border Healthcare”, was co-organised and co-funded by the Cluster of Excellence “Asia & Europe” at the University of Heidelberg, and the French Institute of (...)

Dr. Eric DENIS joined the Institute on May 19, 2009, as a Researcher and new head of the Social Sciences Department, for a two-year period. He succeeds to Dr. Laurent Pordié, who continues to lead at the IFP, the research programme on Societies and Medicines in South Asia. Eric Denis was (...)

A three-day International conference on “Reading practices and Textual culture in Classical Tamil” was jointly organized by the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) and the Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai, and held at the IFP on March 25 to 27, 2009. This conference, which (...)

A workshop on “Overindebtedness and its effect on village economy of Pazhaverkadu region” jointly organised by the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) and the Madras Social Service Society, was held at the IFP on March 23, 2009. This workshop had as an objective to address the issue of (...)

The Western Ghats Forest Biodiversity portal was recently launched at the official website of the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP). It is a portal of research applications and databases on forests and trees of the Western Ghats. The information in the portal is the culmination of several (...)

• Workshop on policy research in South Asia
• « Palmes Académiques » awarded to Pandit S. SAMBANDAN
• Conference on The Commercialization of Local Knowledge
• Prof. Velayoudom MARIMOUTOU, new Director of the IFP
• Departure of the Director of the IFP, Dr. Jean-Pierre Muller
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